EMPORIA — A company that specializes in the manufacture of towing products and accessories is closing its doors. All but 12 of the 130 employees at Hopkins Manufacturing were terminated earlier this week, with the…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (KPR) — Lawrence police say DNA discovered on a single cigarette butt helped crack a 25-year-old case involving child sex crimes. Fifty-eight-year-old David James Zimbrick was arrested Monday in Raytown, Missouri, for allegedly…

Organizers of the 2025 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade canceled the event Tuesday because of a horse virus outbreak affecting multiple states. The event, scheduled for Dec. 6, has been a Lawrence tradition for more than…

LAWRENCE — The Lawrence public school district switched digital surveillance software vendors for the new school year while facing litigation that accuses school officials of unconstitutional spying on students, including high school journalists. The district…

On Oct. 25, President Joe Biden officially apologized for the “sin of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents.”  These sacrifices and the federal effort to “kill the…

Near the end of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Lawrence City Commission, a man in a jester’s hat approached the speaker’s podium with a smile on his face.  The room was tense.  “Public comment time?”…

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Possible team training camps for the 2026 World Cup include sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Cincinnati; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Louisville, Kentucky; St. Louis; Salt Lake City and Herriman, Utah; San Antonio;…

The news and advertising staff of The Iola Register won their respective sweepstakes awards at the Kansas Press Association’s annual awards banquet Friday evening in Lawrence. The Register is judged among its peers of small…

TOPEKA — Republican lawmakers in Topeka are trying to snuff out liberal Lawrence’s reign as a plastic bag-free city. If history is a guide, the GOP likely won’t have enough votes to overturn a veto…

Owners of a dump near Lawrence will have to pay more than $34,000 in upgrades and penalties for violating clean air regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. The Hamm Inc. landfill, which is just…